History In Sports Video Games

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  @AUSHTEEN · 1 year ago

  I love when real world history is briefly displayed in sports games, and just how easily it can break immersion after years have passed. Like in NBA 2K13 when I win a championship in my 15th season of MyCareer and take a picture at the White House with Barack Obama, which insinuates that in that universe he abolished the 22nd Amendment and became King of the United States.

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  @JT-Rebel · 1 year ago

  Youngans these days will never believe us when we say "Seriously, EA Sports used to care about making a good Video Game"

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  @thacool101 · 1 year ago

  I just don't understand why the new games don't remember who your franchise stats season to season its nice to look at your players year to year

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  @cranjismcbasketball1638 · 1 year ago

  I loved how on NCAA Football 07 there was a giant trophy cabinet and you could fill it up by winning rivalry trophy games. It taught me so much about the rivalry landscape of college football

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  @TheBasedGodNA · 1 year ago

  One history feature I miss was in the old NCAA games rivalry game loading screens. Would give you an overview of the history between the 2 teams, the series record, trophies, and the recent meetings

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  @_Bungus · 1 year ago

  I cannot overstate how badly I wish we could get an "eras" sort of mode in an NFL football game. I would LOVE to interact with football history in such a deep way, but I doubt we'll ever get it.

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  @kalarse · 1 year ago

  EA FIFA World Cup (when they released those), used to have important World Cup matches.<br>I still remember France 98, if you choose to play an old finals match, even the camera would match the cameras/photos used in that era. It was really cool, even on old systems like PSOne and N64

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  @shaolinotter · 1 year ago

  the &quot;special suprise&quot; content is a big part of why tony hawk pro skater was so cool. you get skate video footage for beating the game with each character, and you can unlock lots of other easter eggs

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  @SteelersCardinals1 · 1 year ago

  Those old NCAA football teams also wore old sports equipment. Ranging from leather helmets, to plastic helmets, single bar facemasks, to what was modern at the time

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  @leemajors61 · 1 year ago

  I will never forget how I originally beat the Cal/Stanford challenge in NCAA 04. I couldn&apos;t return the kick for the life of me, and blocking kicks was next to impossible in that game. So I just started running into the FG team committing intentional offsides out of frustration, not letting them kick the FG.<br><br>Then the AI decided to do something insane. It was so close to the goal line, it decided to skip trying a FG and went for a normal play to punch it in for the TD. Confused as hell, I ran a normal defense. They got stuffed trying to gain a few inches... and I won, with a final score of 19-17. Still the most insane thing I&apos;ve seen an AI do in a sports game.

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  @gakster29 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Leaving out The Show collaborating with the literal best sports history museum ever the past two years...and it&apos;s so good, a player born in 1891 will probably get a Hall of Fame IRL plaque from the exposure.

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  @solairevibes · 1 year ago (edited)

  This mirrors my own relationship with a lot of sports games as well especially with regards to history because like I started becoming more of a stat nerd when I was a kid because of like the Madden record book

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